Vermont Nonprofit Navigator
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Middlebury Studio School
2377 Route 7 S, Middlebury, VT | Tax-exempt since January 2010
- EIN
- 264711953
- Last filing
- 12/2017
- Organization type
- 501(c)(3)
- Mission category
- Education
- Foundation type
- Organization that normally receives no more than one-third of its support from gross investment income and unrelated business income and at the same time more than one-third of its support from contributions, fees, and gross receipts related to exempt purposes.
- Nonprofit since
- Jan. 1, 2010
- Revenue
- $140,562
- Assets
- $408,669
Last reported financials:
2017
Expenses
$116,461
Fundraising expenses
$7,682
Salary expenses
$52,781
Revenue
$140,562
Contributions and grants
$48,383
Assets
$408,669
Liabilities
$1,046
2016
Expenses
$95,569
Fundraising expenses
$8,469
Salary expenses
$48,051
Revenue
$435,848
Contributions and grants
$355,160
Assets
$381,389
Liabilities
$1,091
2015
Expenses
$105,697
Fundraising expenses
$3,742
Salary expenses
$47,409
Revenue
$109,518
Contributions and grants
$36,875
Assets
$41,173
Liabilities
$1,038
2014
Expenses
$77,871
Salary expenses
$42,073
Revenue
$85,146
Contributions and grants
$20,561
Assets
$37,210
Liabilities
$896
2013
Expenses
$78,754
Salary expenses
$44,402
Revenue
$78,544
Contributions and grants
$15,768
Assets
$29,954
Liabilities
$915
2012
2011
Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.
2017
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barbara Nelson | Exective Dir | $16,231 | $0 |
| Kathy Clark | Director | $15,400 | $0 |
| Donna Bailey | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Llyn Rice | President | $0 | $0 |
| Mary Lower | Vice Preside | $0 | $0 |
| Michaela Granstrom | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| David Sandler | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Barbara Z Nelson | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
2016
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathy Clark | Director | $15,754 | $0 |
| Barbara Nelson | Exec Directo | $15,242 | $0 |
| Barbara Z Nelson | Treasurer | $0 | $0 |
| David Sandler | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Michaela Granstrom | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
| Llyn Rice | President | $0 | $0 |
| Mary Lower | Vice Preside | $0 | $0 |
| Donna Bailey | Director | $0 | $0 |
2015
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barbara Nelson | Exec Dir/Tre | $14,742 | $0 |
| Kathy Clark | Director | $6,693 | $0 |
| Llyn Rice | President | $0 | $0 |
| Mary Lower | Vice Preside | $0 | $0 |
| Christine Kelley | Director | $0 | $0 |
| David Sandler | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Donna Bailey | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Michaela Granstrom | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
2014
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barbara Nelson | Exec Dir/Tre | $15,342 | $0 |
| Kathy Clark | Studio Manag | $12,388 | $0 |
| David Sandler | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Christine Kelley | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Llyn Rice | President | $0 | $0 |
| Mary Lower | Vice Preside | $0 | $0 |
| Michaela Granstrom | Secretary | $0 | $0 |
2013
| Name | Title | Base/Bonus Compensation | Benefits and Other Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barbara Nelson | Executive Dir. | $15,642 | $0 |
| Kathy Clark | Studio Manager | $13,374 | $0 |
| Tad Spurgeon | Key Employee | $2,250 | $0 |
| Llyn Rice | President | $0 | $0 |
| Michaela Granstrom | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Christine Kelley | Director | $0 | $0 |
| David Sandler | Director | $0 | $0 |
| Mary Lower | Vice President | $0 | $0 |
About this tool
As of May 2018, Vermont’s 6,044 nonprofits reported $6.8 billion in revenue and $13.2 billion in assets in their latest Internal Revenue Service filings. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that nearly 18 percent of the state’s workers are employed by 501c3s.
Organizations like ProPublica and Guidestar both offer excellent tools that open up public access to the information contained in IRS 990s, the financial reports nonprofits file annually. But we wanted to be able to dive a little deeper — to see, search, sort and filter the organizations and people that make up Vermont’s nonprofit ecosystem.
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About the data
To build a list of Vermont nonprofit organizations, we pulled state listings from the Internal Revenue Service.
Some Vermont nonprofits — about one-third — file digitally. That includes all of the state’s largest nonprofit organizations, like hospitals and colleges, plus many smaller ones. The IRS makes those filings available as XML files for public download, and tools like IRSx make it possible to understand what’s in those data files.
In cases where electronic filings weren’t available, we pulled in PDF versions from ProPublica’s API, so that we could get a better idea of the organizations we were missing.
In all, you’ll find more than 13,500 filings from nonprofit organizations in this database. However, there are some caveats. Not all nonprofits file annual financial reports — those with limited annual revenue, as well as ones that fall into religious, governmental or other exempt categories, are not required to file. And even when organizations file 990s, they don’t always do them right.